4th Filming diary - Construction - A2 Media

For our forth filming session we had a few lip syncing and solo acting parts for our male actor. We did all our filming in a quiet area where there was not much disturbance. 
We filmed him lip syncing to a few lines of the song, we chose these lines as they are the more important lines and we felt having him sing them in the video would put more emphasis on the lines.
We experimented with lots of different angles and positions to find ones that worked well in that particular shot and i think we did this well.

3rd Filming diary - Construction - A2 Media

For our third filming session we had a few lip syncing parts for our female actress. We did all our filming in front of a white wall for this particular part. 
We filmed her lip syncing to a few lines of the song, we chose these lines as they are the more important lines and we felt having her sing them in the video would put more emphasis on the lines.
We experimented with lots of different angles and positions to find ones that worked well in that particular shot and i think we did this well.

2nd filming diary - Construction - A2 Media

For our second filming session we mainly practiced lip syncing for certain parts of our video. We wanted to see what the actors skill level was for lip syncing before we started to film.
We filmed the actors in front of a white background, we gave them a few lines to lip sync and tried out lots of different ways to make it as realistic as we could. We tried them singing the lines to make it more like they are actually singing it. This method worked well and we are hoping to use it when we start properly filming our lip syncing parts.

1st Filming diary - Construction - A2 Media

For our first filming session we mainly were practicing for when we start properly filming. We kept all our filming in our sixth form common room after school so it wasn't too busy. 
We filmed the two actors laughing and sitting together, we are hoping this will be for the beginning of the video where we show the actors as being friends before the dynamics change, we had the actors talking and laughing in the sixth form common room, had them walking down a corridor as if they were coming back from a lesson, again laughing and talking together, them we had them walking out the door but the male actor holding the door open for the female actor, we are hoping to contrast this with a later shot of the male actor walking straight out of the door and shutting it on her. 

Photoshoot - Construction - A2 Media

Filming schedule - Planning - A2 Media

Photoshoot planning document - Planning - A2 Media

How the lyrics link to our ideas - Planning - A2 Media

Our video is all about two people who have romantic feelings for each other, but don’t have the courage to tell each other. This causes them to be unaware of the others feelings toward them. Their sudden realisation of their feelings for each other is highlighted in the line ‘All I knew this morning when I woke / is I know something now, know something now I didn’t before’ this shows they have realised what they want.

However by the end of the video the girl has decided that she can’t wait for him anymore and finds someone else. This links to the line ‘everything has changed’ as she herself has changed by meeting someone else.

In our video we want to show the male actor trying to show his feelings for the girl, we did this by getting him to hold open doors for her, this links to the line ‘All I know is you held the door’ this shows that he is being a gentlemen to her, but by the end of the video he stops holding the door open as he sees no point.

Understanding the editing software - Planning - A2 Media

Storyboard for music video - Planning - A2 Media

Costume planning moodboard - Planning - A2 Media

https://uk.pinterest.com/hulbert2026/costume-planning-a2-media/ 

Permission letter to universal - Planning - A2 Media

Prop list - Planning - A2 Media

Phone:
We decided to use a phone because in our story to show that the girl had moved on from the boy we decided to show her texting him instead of showing him physically there as we believed this would leave it more for the audience to interpret instead of showing them exactly what was happening.







Guitar:
We decided to use a guitar because we wanted to show the how much the boy likes the girl by showing him writing a song for her, although he never plays it for her, he will write it for her. This would show how the boy likes the girl but is too scared/shy to tell her.

Risk assessment - Planning - A2 Media

Actors profiles- Planning - A2 Media

Name: Danny Ovens


Date of birth: 16th February 1998

Place of birth: Epsom, England

Nationality: British

Height: 5' 9"

Education: Attended Epsom and Ewell high school

Contact number: 07527593584

Email: dannyovens@gmail.co.uk

Twitter: @Danovensacting

Name: Lucy Percell

Date of birth: 30th June 1996

Place of birth: Epsom, England

Nationality: British

Height: 5'6"

Education: Attended Epsom and Ewell high school

Contact number: 07097483326

Email: lucypercell1@gmail.co.uk

Twitter: @Lucypercell

Permission for location - Planning - A2 Media

Initial ideas - Planning - A2 Media

Boy and girl – like each other, flirty

Story:

Like each other, one moves on because don’t get asked out.

Locations:

Park

Streets

House

Actors/actresses:

Lucy

Danny

Props:

Guitar

Phones

Costume:

Casual

Makeup:

Natural

Storyline:

Walking down street together, close ups

Messing about in shops

Have them at one house watching film

Girl texting other guy

Guy sees this, gets angry, throws phone

Why:

Song is about change in a relationship whether that be romantic or otherwise, we have chosen to have two friends that like each other, but neither wants to ask the other out, and the change will be when the girl moves on and starts texting another guy, and this leads to them stopping contact altogether.

Music video literal understanding - Research - A2 Media

Definition:

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings.

Music videos vary in style from narrative to artistic style, usually artistic videos have abstract or quirky lyrics to match the video, these videos often don’t have an obvious story or meaning so have to be interpreted by the viewer. Other videos such as narrative stories have very obvious meanings and require no interpretation from the viewer.

Target audience - Research - A2 Media

Music consumption - Research - A2 Media

In the 1800’s, the consumption of music both through listening and reading about started off through hard copies such as Records and printed magazines that you had to buy in stores. The advance in technology allowed for much smaller forms of music like CD’s in 1982 as opposed to the larger records we had before. This then allowed for CD players, which became portable which gave for wider uses other than record players that stayed at home.

Radio’s also increased the music consumption as various artists could be played on the radio for the public to listen to. This vastly increased live performances and having artists perform in a studio for it to be played on the radio. This had a huge influence of the global craze of music that we enjoy today. The first radio broadcast was in 1920 and this started off what is now a global success that has over 600 licensed station in the UK alone and also over 45 million listeners a year.

The use of software such as I-tunes allowed for music to be stored in large quantities on a computer to therefore be used on other devices. This was a much more efficient device in comparison to the CD player as you could only listen to one CD at a time, and most commonly, one artist. The creation of I-pods allowed for music on the go and large quantities with the best product being able to store up to around 40,000 songs. This was a huge technological advance for the time as it allowed for the portable use of a wide range of music at the touch of your fingers.

The rise of mobile devices allowing a platform for music has globally increased our consumption of music of all genres. The global brand of Youtube had its introduction in 2005, which meant the easy access of music across the world. The increase of artists’ Vevo channel increased their population and also music consumption.  The free access that the world has vastly increased the music dominance in the market. Youtube is now becoming one of the largest consumer websites with some videos reaching over a billion views and others consistently reaching hundreds of millions. 

Live concerts are starting to become the next step up of music consumption as it allows for a much greater experience in most cases. The live experience creates a whole new consumption process that cant be replicated, this does cause a lot more money to be input into the music media but it’s a whole new process that not everyone can experience.

Music consumption is a very important factor towards the music business and is the reason why it is as popular as it is today. The consumption has changed massively over the years going from large vinyls too much smaller portable music players. The consumption of music has changed over time and allowed for a much wider audience to be able to purchase it across many different platforms. These platforms therefore became updated and more advanced which therefore improved the music consumption of today.

Special effects research - Research - A2 Media

There are many different types of special effects that are used in music videos that make the video a lot more interesting and it also creates different emotions within the artist so they can show themselves to the audience. The definition of special effects is an impression made for films, camerawork, television, computer graphics etc. that are used that shows certain events in a story. CGI is a information technology company that is specialized in special effects technologies. This company gives control to certain filmmakers so the special effects are delivered to those filmmakers securely. CGI also has delivered many types of visual effects techniques that has been using till now.

Green Screen

There is a special effect that has been used in green screen known as Chroma keying which gives a special techniques for layering two images or videos together depending on color tones. This effect mostly has been used in newscasting, video game industries etc. and it has mostly used to get rid of the background from photos or videos. 

Green Screen

  

Chroma keying, is a special effects / post-production technique for  layering two images or video streams together based on colour hues. The technique has been used in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video. Particularly the newscasting, motion picture and video game industries. This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour separation or by various terms for specific colour related variants such as green screen effects. Green backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ the most from most human skin colours. Green screen effects are now used in most if not all hollywood movies and now music videos are starting to uses the effect to make there short music videos stand out from competitors.